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On Tuesday, the social network announced that it had launched
Twitter University, an internal company initiative to provide its
engineers with new programming skills.

"Being able to continually learn on the job and develop a sense
of expertise or mastery is a fundamental factor in success in the
technology industry and long-term happiness at a company," Chris
Fry, Twitter's senior vice president of engineering,
wrote in a company blog post.

Continuing education is apparently so important to Twitter that
it was willing to acquire an entire startup to make it happen. In
his post, Fry disclosed that Twitter had bought Marakana, a
company developing open-source training for software engineers.
Marakana founders Marko and Aleksandar Gargenta have joined
Twitter and are spearheading the Twitter University program.

Naturally, the program has its own Twitter account. It promises to
provide discussion and sharing of ideas around emerging
technologies. And in keeping with Marakana's open-source
principles, Twitter plans to make some of the Twitter University
content available online for anyone who wants to learn from it,
Fry said.